English

On a problem by Shapozenko on Johnson graphs

Combinatorics 2017-02-09 v2

Abstract

The Johnson graph J(n,m)J(n,m) has the mm--subsets of {1,2,,n}\{1,2,\ldots,n\} as vertices and two subsets are adjacent in the graph if they share m1m-1 elements. Shapozenko asked about the isoperimetric function μn,m(k)\mu_{n,m}(k) of Johnson graphs, that is, the cardinality of the smallest boundary of sets with kk vertices in J(n,m)J(n,m) for each 1k(nm)1\le k\le {n\choose m}. We give an upper bound for μn,m(k)\mu_{n,m}(k) and show that, for each given kk such that the solution to the Shadow Minimization Problem in the Boolean lattice is unique, and each sufficiently large nn, the given upper bound is tight. We also show that the bound is tight for the small values of km+1k\le m+1 and for all values of kk when m=2m=2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1604.05084,
  title  = {On a problem by Shapozenko on Johnson graphs},
  author = {Víctor Diego and Oriol Serra and Lluís Vena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.05084},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 figure. Improved version with the comments from the referees

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